Prosecution witnesses testified during the fifth day in the murder trial against Fortuna man Jon Goldberg on Monday that they had seen Goldberg holding the gun that is alleged to have killed Fortuna resident Tim Smith in September 2016 and that Goldberg had threatened to kill Smith earlier that day.

Smith’s son Tim Smith Jr. testified Monday that he saw Goldberg twice at his and his parents’ Fortuna home in less than 24 hours in late September 2016: once when Goldberg was helping Tim Smith clean a fishing boat and again the following morning holding a gun right after Goldberg allegedly shot Smith five times.

“I recognize him as the man that shot my father in front of me,” Smith Jr. said, indicating Goldberg who was seated at a table in the courtroom.

Smith Jr. testified that he did not witness Goldberg shooting his father, but saw him a few seconds after the shots rang out.

Goldberg, 37, is accused of fatally shooting Tim Smith, 42, with a .357 caliber revolver just after noon on Sept. 26, 2016, at Smith’s home on the 3100 block of Rohnerville Road.

Deputy District Attorneys Luke Bernthal and Trent Timm said in their opening statements last week that Goldberg killed Smith after discovering earlier that morning that his wife, Rachel Goldberg, had been having an extramarital affair with the man.

Goldberg’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Casey Russo, argued a “perfect storm” of events led to the killing and Goldberg arrived at Smith’s residence in fear, anger and wary of a “true gun guy” whom he believed had left town for a hunting trip.

Goldberg’s neighbor on state Route 36, Chad Holub, also testified Monday that an uncharacteristically angry Goldberg came over to his house on the morning of the shooting to use his phone. Holub said Goldberg then talked to him about the affair and threatened to kill Smith.

“He told me that ‘I’m going to kill that motherf---er,’ ” Holub said.

Smith was found facedown in his driveway near his red Ford F-150 having been shot five times in the chest, back and left shoulder, according to testimony Monday by Humboldt County Deputy Coroner Jamie Barney.

Bernthal projected several crime scene photos of Smith’s body, prompting one man seated in the audience to leave the courtroom. Other people in the audience wiped their eyes or covered their face as the graphic pictures were shown.

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Tim Smith Jr. testified he saw Goldberg holding a gun around noon on Sept. 26, 2016, a few seconds after he heard yelling and several gunshots outside his Fortuna home. Smith Jr. said he was living in a trailer parked in the driveway of the residence at the time and pulled down the blinds to peer outside.

“I’d seen [Goldberg] clear as day,” Smith Jr. said.

Smith Jr. said he didn’t know who Goldberg was in both instances and that his father had never mentioned him before.

Smith Jr. testified he dropped to the ground of his trailer and crawled to a closet to retrieve a 12-gauge shotgun, but saw no ammunition was nearby. Smith Jr. said he then heard the sound of a car “peel out” of their driveway, which prosecutors say was Goldberg fleeing the scene in a white van.

Smith Jr. testified that he also heard yelling from Jessica Springer, his mother and Smith’s wife, prompting Smith Jr. to run outside so that if the man was to shoot somebody, it would be him rather than his mother. Once outside he saw his father lying in a pool of blood in the driveway and Goldberg was nowhere to be seen, according to his testimony.

Smith Jr. said he went to his mother and they held each other on the porch.

“Our entire life had just been destroyed in a matter of seconds before us,” Smith Jr. said.

Smith Jr. said before the police showed up, he went into his father’s room to grab his father’s guns, which he said were all accounted for. He said he wanted to shoot the man who shot his father, but changed his mind.

“I told myself, ‘How can you be as low as him?’ ” he said.

In his cross examination, Russo questioned Smith Jr. about some of the statements he made about the day of the shooting during Goldberg’s preliminary hearing in December 2016 such as whether Smith’s truck door was open and whether police asked him whether any firearms were in the truck. Smith Jr. said he did not remember giving some of the testimony.

Russo questioned whether Smith Jr. remembered seeing a firearm on his father’s bed, to which Smith Jr. said he believed he was the one to take the gun out of its case.

Holub said Goldberg was visibly upset when he came over to his house on the morning of Sept. 26, 2016, to use his phone.

Prior to Goldberg arriving at his home on a “quad,” Holub said he heard raised voices, but did not know to whom they belonged. Holub said he had never seen any angry behavior or domestic violence with the Goldberg couple.

“He was a pretty mellow fellow,” Holub said about Goldberg.

Holub said he didn’t believe Goldberg was serious when he said he was going to kill Smith.

Barney testified that after arriving at the scene of the shooting he examined Smith’s body and found Smith had a wallet, a key and a folded pocket knife in his pockets. Barney said there were no shell casings at the scene, which to him indicated that the murder weapon was a revolver.

The prosecution stated in its opening statements last week that two .357 shell casings were found in the white van Jon Goldberg reportedly abandoned on Avenue of the Giants. The weapon has not been recovered.

Fortuna Police Officer James Jengeleski testified that he arrived at the crime scene at about 12:45 p.m. on the day of the shooting and spoke with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. workers who were working near Smith’s home.

Upon questioning by Russo, Jengeleski — a now two-year Fortuna Police officer — said he took statements from the workers as a group rather than individually, which he said went against his training. Jengeleski said he also did not record the statements, but instead took notes which he said were later destroyed.

Jengeleski said he also prepared the crime scene log to document whenever someone entered or exited the crime. Russo questioned why some names were only listed once and not twice since they would have to enter and exit the crime scene. The officer said he did not have an explanation and that it was the first time he had made such a log.

Jengeleski said he also arrived at Goldberg’s residence later that day and was given property confiscated from Goldberg by the Humboldt County SWAT team including a wallet, driver’s license, a Dodge key fob and a phone. Jengeleski said he gave these items to a sheriff’s deputy.